Using wired endpoints to determine position information for wireless endpoints in a network

A system in communication with wired endpoints and wireless endpoints over a network comprising:

• a processor;
• a computer readable recording medium including code executed by the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• maintaining information on the wired endpoints transmitting signals identifying the wired endpoints and including position information for the wired endpoints;
• receiving identifying information from a detected wired endpoint connected to the network;
• issuing a command to the detected wired endpoint to cause the detected wired endpoint to transmit signals identifying the wired endpoint;
• receiving information from a communicating wireless endpoint, comprising one of the wireless endpoints, using wireless communication, including wireless endpoint identification information and information identifying at least one of the wired endpoints transmitting signals received at the wireless endpoint;
• determining position information for the wired endpoint indicated in the information received from the communicating wireless endpoint;
• and
• updating information on the communicating wireless endpoint to associate with the determined position information.

A computer implemented method for communicating with wireless endpoints and wired endpoints in a network, comprising:

• maintaining, by a processor, information on the wired endpoints transmitting signals identifying the wired endpoints and including position information for the wired endpoints;
• receiving, by the processor, identifying information from a detected wired endpoint connected to the network;
• issuing a command, by the processor, to the detected wired endpoint to cause the detected wired endpoint to transmit signals identifying the wired endpoint;
• receiving, by the processor, information from a communicating wireless endpoint, comprising one of the wireless endpoints, using wireless communication, including wireless endpoint identification information and information identifying at least one of the wired endpoints transmitting signals received at the wireless endpoint;
• determining, by the processor, position information for the wired endpoint indicated in the information received from the communicating wireless endpoint;
• and
• updating, by the processor, information on the communicating wireless endpoint to associate with the determined position information.